I don’t do Lent, but I think it might be a good idea. I wonder what it would be like to not be judgmental of other people for 40 days. It would be easier to just give up ice cream.

Another idea would be to pick one of the seven deadly sins and try to purge my life from its evil influence. Pride, envy, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, sloth—I’d want to start with the easiest, but I don’t know which one that would be. My “holiness” upbringing had some notion of a “sinless” life. I haven’t found it.